Monday, January 31, 2011

Update Jan 24-30

As stubborn as one may want to be in chasing after their goals, there's a time and place to sit down and take in the view. Sunday, it was perched on the side of a canyon in Altadena looking across at the trail winding up the other side. I looked across through the drizzle and mist and listened to the complete stillness that had been created in the canyon. Though I was only a few miles away from the city, the shielding walls of the canyon and the thick misty rain had made things perfectly silent.

I looked down and couldn't see the bottom, but thought back to sunny days in the summer and remembered how high up I was. In a way, high mileage training consistently puts us in the fog: we don't always look back on what we've done or always know how far we have to go.

At the time, I was approaching about 1/4 way up from Lake Ave to my eventual destination of Mt. Lowe; similarly in my training for Angeles Crest, I'm 1/4 now. The next 3 phases will be 120-150 mile weeks, high altitude workouts, and then a course specific taper.